BLOG changes to stop SPAM

UPDATE: July 4: 2005 Nope, the rather complex trigger approach did not work. It seems for one reason or another the trigger never fired. It also failed to do one simple thing: rollback the insert transaction.

I did some additional research and it seems the Captcha does not stop anybody but those wishing to post comments. After studying the inbound spam I discovered something that should stop them (for now). I'll share that with anyone that I know but I won't share it with the web--that's where the spammers live.

________________

I added some code to my .TEXT blog to prevent the spammers from adding comments. Be sure to send me mail (you know my email address) if you have trouble logging comments.

I just tested it and it seems to be working. Basically, the code uses the “trigger“ approach to filter inbound comments.

Nope, the trigger approach shut down the spammers that had many URLs in the text, but not the others. I had to add a control that capture the scrambled text in another attempt to keep out the creeps and cretins.

Thanks